Good news, cold-climate dwellers: There is a new company entering the glove-friendly capacitive touchscreen arena. SMK, maker of telecom and electronic components has recently announced a new 6.5-inch ...

From Disney World to the smartphone in your pocket, fingerprint scanners have become commonplace these days. Even budget phones sport the tech, sometimes alongside other biometric unlocking options ...

Technology plays an integral part in our lives, but often, we have little understanding of how the devices we use every day actually work. In this video, we reveal how a touchscreen works and explain ...

British mathematician Hannah Fry digs into the science of touchscreens on mobile phones. Using a sausage, she explain how touchscreens work by detecting changes in the electric field, and how anything ...

Projected capacitive touchscreens traditionally consist of patterned conductive coatings (one X axis layer and one Y axis layer) aligned to produce a matrix structure. A third shield layer is often ...

During South Korea's brutal winter of 2010, frustrated glove-wearing smartphone users learned that they could use sausages instead of their finger. This hack became so popular that one sausage ...